OregonGrows
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Hi we are OregonGrows and welcome to our first grow journal! We have been growing for the past couple years and are constantly trying new ideas. I first want to thank everyone for posting your journals here as they have been extremely helpful and inspired us to create our own journal to share. Right now we have 4 organic flowering plants in soil in a panda-film tent: Golden Ticket Chernobyl, Timewreck, Blue Magoo, and Ace of Spades. We recently purchased two Mars II 700 Watt LEDs ($300 each) after reading the TOP LED Discount forum, and we also have a 1000 watt HPS. This grow we tried fewer, but bigger plants, 15 gallon cloth root pots, new LEDs, and a new line of soil and fertilizers from a local Eugene store called Oregon's Constant Gardener. Two of our plants are about 2.5 weeks away from harvest and are bigger right now than our previous plants were at harvest. Here's a shot of whats to come:
Here’s our light equipment:
LEDs from Top LED arrived within 3 days from payment in a discreet cardboard box packed in styrofoam. No invoice or coupons but impressive shipping speed, and the lights are awesome. No complications, even though the website can seem sketchy with sentences like “See special offer you can save more money” and “Which new items customer want to buy”. Sarah was in contact making sure things went smoothly. It took a while to read through the first Top LED forum, but here’s a summary on the light.
Mars II 700 standard/full spectrum
LED Output Power: 140pcs*5watt = 700watts total. (Replaces 700 watt hps)
Draw Power:300W~380W (The actual wattage draw per diode is lower (2-2.5), because it is better for LED diodes. If it was drawn at 5watt, the diodes will be more easily burned out.)
Dimension:390x380x90mm. 6ft cord. Daisy-chainable. No separate ballasts needed to power the lights. Just plug it in and enjoy how the breakers don’t go off anymore
Voltage: AC85~265V
View Angle of leds: 90° /120 (Small footprint but better light penetration than 3watt light LEDs. Less light lost to the sides of the room. No need for reflective white or mylar walls anymore.)
Lifespan 50,000-100,000hours (Something like 10 years or more. 3 year warranty)
N.W.: 8.7KG G.W.: 10KG (19 or 22 lbs?)
Coverage :3.5'x3.5' Standard
Spectrum: standard/full spectrum: 430~440nm, 450~475nm 620~630nm, 650~660nm, IR, and white
Standard spectrum= red, blue, white, and infared.
Epistar diodes. Part No: Red:ES-SMBRPN42A (2.2~2.4V), Blue:ES-SMHRPN42B, white and blue is 3.2~3.4V
Heat: about half or less of what the HPS makes.
Let me introduce you to the ladies
Here’s our Clone Box: these are two fluorescent grow lights about 23 watts each I think and about 8 inches from the dome. We try to keep our cuttings around 78-80 degrees with 80% humidity or higher. We trim the ends of the leaves so they don’t weigh the clone down, and it makes the plant focus more on roots and less on growing leaves. We take 45 degree cuts on the stems, dip the ends in Clonex, and place them in moist root cubes. We don’t spray the leaves. It weighs them down, overwaters the cubes, and creates more mold. Spraying the inside of the dome (repeatedly, so it is always wet) keeps the humidity high so the clones don’t dry out and get embolisms. The toothpicks keep them facing the light and it keeps them from cutting off their own water supply in the event that they wilt over. Also it gives you something to hold onto when you check for roots. The name tags are all dated as well.
Here’s our Veg room:
We obsessively hoard strains for our small area and keep multiple phenos of the same type if they turn out noticeably different (but awesome in its own way). It’s bad sometimes lol…
We have Blue magoo, Timewreck (1-2), Marion berry/Cotton candy (A-D), Cheesequake (1-3), Chernobyl (golden ticket?), Ace of Spades (1-2), Space goat, Purple sour diesel, Strawberry OG, Jiillybean(1-3), Pineapple, Jack Herrer, Blue Cheese, Jaeger, 3rd Dimension (3D) (1-4), Deep purple.
All of our plants are vegged out slowly about 2-3 months before we flower them. Small clones are transplanted to double walled cups (a clear one inside of an opaque one) so we can easily check for root formation before transplanting to a bigger pot.
We use a local organic soil mix with Alaskan Magic compost. It’s bag #4 at the store. I will get the ingredients list in the future. We also use a slow release organic fertilizer called One Shot, only sold from the Constant Gardener locally. Here is the ingredient list: Worm castings, fish meal, fish bone meal, limestone, feather meal, alfalfa meal, soybean meal, mycorrhizae fungi. All this is wrapped in molasses pellets so as you water, the bacteria and yeast eat the molasses, making nutrients available to the plant as it needs it. This is our first time using it. Supposedly it lasts up to 90 days, can’t burn the plant no matter how much you add, and can be reapplied as a top-dressing every two weeks. So far (30 days) the plants look better than when we used aurora liquid nutrients, it’s not messy or stinky, and it’s cheaper and easier to use. I am sure if you are an expert you can get better yields using carefully measured and timed liquid ingredients every few days. For a novice who routinely burns and stunts their plants with liquids, or someone who wants to make a super soil set-it-and-forget-it outdoors type soil, this is a great product.
Problems: Our plants did get powdery mildew at one point when we were moving and neglected them. It’s systemic so you can never get rid of it. We control it with rotating fans, humidity below 50%, and Organicide (fish and sesame oil). It has bad reviews online but I love it. I prefer the fish smell to the neem and it goes away after a few days. It doesn’t burn or dry out the leaves as much as neem, so I can spray more often if a plant needs it. Also, when I used to use neem and I touched the plant afterward, I would get itchy bumps on my hands. I don’t get that anymore. I have even used it 3 days before harvesting on a plant. I didn’t notice a fish smell but we wash our fresh buds in food grade hydrogen peroxide (H202) and baking soda before drying anyway. No fishy smell. I have heard that Sulfer burns will coat your room and plants to keep PM away. I might try it in the future on our room, but not on our plants.
Here’s our Flower room: Plants are 1.5ft from the lights. That's closer than the 2-3ft recommended but they look healthy, not bleached. We will just have to see what our yields are in the end. We have a dehumidifier to keep humidity below 50%. We bought LEDs to reduce the temperature in the room on hot days. Our average temps are 75-82. While it helps, we don’t yet have the funds to go all LED or get air conditioning. Luckily our climate doesn’t get too hot but temperatures on hot days have spiked at 92 before. We occasionally run CO2 to our entire garage a couple weeks at a time. It’s not super concentrated or regulated that way but you can still tell the plants love it. They get tons of new green shoots and the humidity increases noticeably as photosynthesis increases and the plants breathe water out of their stomata. Too much of a humidity spike seems to bring PM so we don’t use much CO2 and turn up the dehumidifier when we do.
This is Blue Magoo and she was vegged out slowly somewhere between 2 and 3 months before flowering. Right now she has been flowering about 5.5 weeks and has around 2 weeks left to go. This plant has been grown using Aurora’s Roots Organic nutrients and 707 soil. Already showing some color change. The flash made it look way more yellow than it really is. It's almost all green.
This is Ace of Spades 1 and she was put in flower the same day as Blue Magoo. It started showing flowers at day 7. This plant was also grown with aurora nutrients and soil before we made the switch.
This is Timewreck 1 and she has been flowering for 3 weeks. Showed flowers at day 9. A light liquid feed (aurora) combined with the slow release One Shot fertilizer did burn it a bit but not bad.
This is Chernobyl This is our first time flowering it. We got the seeds from someone with awesome plants who said it was golden ticket. It’s possible this is space goat, and our space goat is the golden ticket. We will see. Only a taste test will tell as we have had lime sherbet Chernobyl before. It has only been in flower for 5 days and is already showing calyxes everywhere. Its stalk is massive and it has vigorous growth and PM resistance so I really don’t care what it is. It’s a keeper! This is also using soil #4 and One Shot.
Thanks for looking! We are novice growers and still learning new things. Hate to admit it but previous grows have yielded an average of 2oz per plant under HPS. They were small and stressed and we didn't know what we were doing lol. Everyone has to start somewhere. Our plants this round have surpassed those so far that its almost blasted them out of memory already. I am loving these LEDs. Feel free to post constructive criticism, ask questions, make requests, or just stop by and say hi. Trolls are only welcome as long as they are funny about it. Ill keep all of you updated with lots of pictures of the plants and the bubble hash and shatter we will make when they are done. We have a lot of seeds to try out in the future as well, such as 9lb hammer, Conspiracy Kush, Jack the Ripper, and Cuvee (pinot noir x space queen)
Here’s our light equipment:
LEDs from Top LED arrived within 3 days from payment in a discreet cardboard box packed in styrofoam. No invoice or coupons but impressive shipping speed, and the lights are awesome. No complications, even though the website can seem sketchy with sentences like “See special offer you can save more money” and “Which new items customer want to buy”. Sarah was in contact making sure things went smoothly. It took a while to read through the first Top LED forum, but here’s a summary on the light.
Mars II 700 standard/full spectrum
LED Output Power: 140pcs*5watt = 700watts total. (Replaces 700 watt hps)
Draw Power:300W~380W (The actual wattage draw per diode is lower (2-2.5), because it is better for LED diodes. If it was drawn at 5watt, the diodes will be more easily burned out.)
Dimension:390x380x90mm. 6ft cord. Daisy-chainable. No separate ballasts needed to power the lights. Just plug it in and enjoy how the breakers don’t go off anymore
Voltage: AC85~265V
View Angle of leds: 90° /120 (Small footprint but better light penetration than 3watt light LEDs. Less light lost to the sides of the room. No need for reflective white or mylar walls anymore.)
Lifespan 50,000-100,000hours (Something like 10 years or more. 3 year warranty)
N.W.: 8.7KG G.W.: 10KG (19 or 22 lbs?)
Coverage :3.5'x3.5' Standard
Spectrum: standard/full spectrum: 430~440nm, 450~475nm 620~630nm, 650~660nm, IR, and white
Standard spectrum= red, blue, white, and infared.
Epistar diodes. Part No: Red:ES-SMBRPN42A (2.2~2.4V), Blue:ES-SMHRPN42B, white and blue is 3.2~3.4V
Heat: about half or less of what the HPS makes.
Let me introduce you to the ladies
Here’s our Clone Box: these are two fluorescent grow lights about 23 watts each I think and about 8 inches from the dome. We try to keep our cuttings around 78-80 degrees with 80% humidity or higher. We trim the ends of the leaves so they don’t weigh the clone down, and it makes the plant focus more on roots and less on growing leaves. We take 45 degree cuts on the stems, dip the ends in Clonex, and place them in moist root cubes. We don’t spray the leaves. It weighs them down, overwaters the cubes, and creates more mold. Spraying the inside of the dome (repeatedly, so it is always wet) keeps the humidity high so the clones don’t dry out and get embolisms. The toothpicks keep them facing the light and it keeps them from cutting off their own water supply in the event that they wilt over. Also it gives you something to hold onto when you check for roots. The name tags are all dated as well.
Here’s our Veg room:
We obsessively hoard strains for our small area and keep multiple phenos of the same type if they turn out noticeably different (but awesome in its own way). It’s bad sometimes lol…
We have Blue magoo, Timewreck (1-2), Marion berry/Cotton candy (A-D), Cheesequake (1-3), Chernobyl (golden ticket?), Ace of Spades (1-2), Space goat, Purple sour diesel, Strawberry OG, Jiillybean(1-3), Pineapple, Jack Herrer, Blue Cheese, Jaeger, 3rd Dimension (3D) (1-4), Deep purple.
All of our plants are vegged out slowly about 2-3 months before we flower them. Small clones are transplanted to double walled cups (a clear one inside of an opaque one) so we can easily check for root formation before transplanting to a bigger pot.
We use a local organic soil mix with Alaskan Magic compost. It’s bag #4 at the store. I will get the ingredients list in the future. We also use a slow release organic fertilizer called One Shot, only sold from the Constant Gardener locally. Here is the ingredient list: Worm castings, fish meal, fish bone meal, limestone, feather meal, alfalfa meal, soybean meal, mycorrhizae fungi. All this is wrapped in molasses pellets so as you water, the bacteria and yeast eat the molasses, making nutrients available to the plant as it needs it. This is our first time using it. Supposedly it lasts up to 90 days, can’t burn the plant no matter how much you add, and can be reapplied as a top-dressing every two weeks. So far (30 days) the plants look better than when we used aurora liquid nutrients, it’s not messy or stinky, and it’s cheaper and easier to use. I am sure if you are an expert you can get better yields using carefully measured and timed liquid ingredients every few days. For a novice who routinely burns and stunts their plants with liquids, or someone who wants to make a super soil set-it-and-forget-it outdoors type soil, this is a great product.
Problems: Our plants did get powdery mildew at one point when we were moving and neglected them. It’s systemic so you can never get rid of it. We control it with rotating fans, humidity below 50%, and Organicide (fish and sesame oil). It has bad reviews online but I love it. I prefer the fish smell to the neem and it goes away after a few days. It doesn’t burn or dry out the leaves as much as neem, so I can spray more often if a plant needs it. Also, when I used to use neem and I touched the plant afterward, I would get itchy bumps on my hands. I don’t get that anymore. I have even used it 3 days before harvesting on a plant. I didn’t notice a fish smell but we wash our fresh buds in food grade hydrogen peroxide (H202) and baking soda before drying anyway. No fishy smell. I have heard that Sulfer burns will coat your room and plants to keep PM away. I might try it in the future on our room, but not on our plants.
Here’s our Flower room: Plants are 1.5ft from the lights. That's closer than the 2-3ft recommended but they look healthy, not bleached. We will just have to see what our yields are in the end. We have a dehumidifier to keep humidity below 50%. We bought LEDs to reduce the temperature in the room on hot days. Our average temps are 75-82. While it helps, we don’t yet have the funds to go all LED or get air conditioning. Luckily our climate doesn’t get too hot but temperatures on hot days have spiked at 92 before. We occasionally run CO2 to our entire garage a couple weeks at a time. It’s not super concentrated or regulated that way but you can still tell the plants love it. They get tons of new green shoots and the humidity increases noticeably as photosynthesis increases and the plants breathe water out of their stomata. Too much of a humidity spike seems to bring PM so we don’t use much CO2 and turn up the dehumidifier when we do.
This is Blue Magoo and she was vegged out slowly somewhere between 2 and 3 months before flowering. Right now she has been flowering about 5.5 weeks and has around 2 weeks left to go. This plant has been grown using Aurora’s Roots Organic nutrients and 707 soil. Already showing some color change. The flash made it look way more yellow than it really is. It's almost all green.
This is Ace of Spades 1 and she was put in flower the same day as Blue Magoo. It started showing flowers at day 7. This plant was also grown with aurora nutrients and soil before we made the switch.
This is Timewreck 1 and she has been flowering for 3 weeks. Showed flowers at day 9. A light liquid feed (aurora) combined with the slow release One Shot fertilizer did burn it a bit but not bad.
This is Chernobyl This is our first time flowering it. We got the seeds from someone with awesome plants who said it was golden ticket. It’s possible this is space goat, and our space goat is the golden ticket. We will see. Only a taste test will tell as we have had lime sherbet Chernobyl before. It has only been in flower for 5 days and is already showing calyxes everywhere. Its stalk is massive and it has vigorous growth and PM resistance so I really don’t care what it is. It’s a keeper! This is also using soil #4 and One Shot.
Thanks for looking! We are novice growers and still learning new things. Hate to admit it but previous grows have yielded an average of 2oz per plant under HPS. They were small and stressed and we didn't know what we were doing lol. Everyone has to start somewhere. Our plants this round have surpassed those so far that its almost blasted them out of memory already. I am loving these LEDs. Feel free to post constructive criticism, ask questions, make requests, or just stop by and say hi. Trolls are only welcome as long as they are funny about it. Ill keep all of you updated with lots of pictures of the plants and the bubble hash and shatter we will make when they are done. We have a lot of seeds to try out in the future as well, such as 9lb hammer, Conspiracy Kush, Jack the Ripper, and Cuvee (pinot noir x space queen)
